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Senior Courts Act 1981

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128 Interpretation of Part V and other probate provisions.

In this part, and in the other provisions of this Act relating to probate causes and matters, unless the context otherwise requires— “administration” includes all letters of administration of the effects of deceased persons, whether with or without a will annexed, and whether granted for general, special or limited purposes; “estate” means real and personal estate, and “real estate” includes— chattels real and land in possession, remainder or reversion and every interest in or over land to which the deceased person was entitled at the time of his death, and real estate held on trust or by way of mortgage or security, but not . . . money secured or charged on land; “grant” means a grant of probate or administration; “non-contentious or common form probate business” means the business of obtaining probate and administration where there is no contention as to the right thereto, including— the passing of probates and administrations through the High Court in contentious cases where the contest has been terminated, all business of a non-contentious nature in matters of testacy and intestacy not being proceedings in any action, and the business of lodging caveats against the grant of probate or administration; “Principal Registry” means the Principal Registry of the Family Division; “probate rules” means rules of court made under section 127; “trust corporation” means the Public Trustee or a corporation either appointed by the court in any particular case to be a trustee or authorised by rules made under section 4(3) of the Public Trustee Act 1906 to act as a custodian trustee; “will” includes a nuncupative will and any testamentary document of which probate may be granted.

Your change, as a redline

128 Interpretation of Part V and other probate provisions.

In this part, and in the other provisions of this Act relating to probate causes and matters, unless the context otherwise requires— “administration” includes all letters of administration of the effects of deceased persons, whether with or without a will annexed, and whether granted for general, special or limited purposes; “estate” means real and personal estate, and “real estate” includes— chattels real and land in possession, remainder or reversion and every interest in or over land to which the deceased person was entitled at the time of his death, and real estate held on trust or by way of mortgage or security, but not . . . money secured or charged on land; “grant” means a grant of probate or administration; “non-contentious or common form probate business” means the business of obtaining probate and administration where there is no contention as to the right thereto, including— the passing of probates and administrations through the High Court in contentious cases where the contest has been terminated, all business of a non-contentious nature in matters of testacy and intestacy not being proceedings in any action, and the business of lodging caveats against the grant of probate or administration; “Principal Registry” means the Principal Registry of the Family Division; “probate rules” means rules of court made under section 127; “trust corporation” means the Public Trustee or a corporation either appointed by the court in any particular case to be a trustee or authorised by rules made under section 4(3) of the Public Trustee Act 1906 to act as a custodian trustee; “will” includes a nuncupative will and any testamentary document of which probate may be granted.

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